# What do you keep running out of?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-keep-running-out-of/337349
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 27, 2005, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-keep-running-out-of/337349 "2005-12-27T20:45:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2005, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-keep-running-out-of/337349/1 "2005-12-27T20:45:31Z")
Every time I turn around, I have no bananas…and then I think, Man, I can’t believe I have to go to the store for those things again.
What do you keep running short of?
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### Author:  [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2005, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-keep-running-out-of/337349/2 "2005-12-27T21:04:54Z")
Condoms, chapstick, ammunition, vodka and tortillas.
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### Author:  [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2005, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-keep-running-out-of/337349/3 "2005-12-27T21:07:37Z")
Milk. I was at the grocery store yesterday, too. Don’t know why I didn’t think to pick up another gallon.
Robin
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### Author:  [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2005, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-keep-running-out-of/337349/4 "2005-12-27T21:16:01Z")
> [@CynicalGabe](#):
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> Condoms, chapstick, ammunition, vodka and tortillas.
The situations where you would need all of things are not only immoral but probaby illegal too.
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### Author:  [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-keep-running-out-of/337349/5 "2005-12-27T21:21:00Z")
Frozen food. I buy enough for a few days and invariably run out before my next trip to the store.
Tissues. Once or twice a year I’ll buy a bunch of boxes when I don’t need them, and I spend the rest of the year thinking that I have extras when I don’t.
Replacement toothbrush heads and knee-high stockings. Though it’s not my fault that I run out of those, because the grocery store is usually out of them, too.
I’m also always out of furnace filters.
(My first thought on seeing the subject line was “patience.” :D)
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2005, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-keep-running-out-of/337349/6 "2005-12-27T21:29:12Z")
> [@CynicalGabe](#):
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> Condoms, chapstick, ammunition, vodka and tortillas.
How much would I have to pay you to live your life for a week?
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### Author:  [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2005, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-keep-running-out-of/337349/7 "2005-12-27T22:20:01Z")
Toilet tissue. We buy the Super Mega Multi Pack of Rolls of Tissue So Large That They Will Not Fit on the Holder. Yet every time I go to the pot - no paper.
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### Author:  [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2005, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-keep-running-out-of/337349/8 "2005-12-27T22:42:10Z")
Kleenex, toilet paper, paper towels, and (with a nod to **CynicalGabe** ) vodka.
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### Author:  [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2005, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-keep-running-out-of/337349/9 "2005-12-27T23:11:52Z")
We don’t have a dishwasher, or, more accurately a machine that washes dishes, so we are constantly running out of dish liquid. The SO seems to think that no less than 1/2 cup of ultra concentrated Dawn is needed to wash a half sink of dishes. A huge bottle that really should last us about 2 months has barely gotten us through 2 weeks.
Maybe it’s time to switch to paper plates…but we’d probly run out of them, too!!
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2005, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-keep-running-out-of/337349/10 "2005-12-27T23:18:39Z")
> [@CynicalGabe](#):
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> Condoms, chapstick, ammunition, vodka and tortillas.
Hunter S. Thompson, is dat you?
Meanwhile, outside of Bat Country…
Bread and pens. Our pens are migratory. (They are in the room we are not in.) Our coat hangers have been awol for months and then suddenly reappear in a frightened clot in the front hall closet. I’m starting to think the front hall closet is a portal to some evil alternate universe or something.
And food for the dog and cat. Fortunately, the dog has no issues about eating cat food for three days until I buy a Mega Colossal Jumbo Bag of K-9 Kibble. The cat, OTHO, is more selective.
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### Author:  [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2005, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-keep-running-out-of/337349/11 "2005-12-28T01:37:07Z")
Kitchen size trash bags. My husband uses them for everything.
But the big black trash bags sit around forever. :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2005, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-keep-running-out-of/337349/12 "2005-12-28T02:40:11Z")
Money, cash, payola, greenbacks, etc. Bread and soda seem to be the staples we run short of on a regular basis.
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### Author:  [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2005, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-keep-running-out-of/337349/13 "2005-12-28T02:54:47Z")
Lemon juice. I use lots & lots of lemon juice. I keep a jar of crystalized citric acid in the cupboard for when I run out.
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### Author:  [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2005, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-keep-running-out-of/337349/14 "2005-12-28T13:29:08Z")
Nothing really, I know how to buy in quantities that don’t lead to this. I guess the closest thing is fuel.
> [@](#):
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> _Condoms, chapstick, ammunition, vodka and tortillas…_…
> How much would I have to pay you to live your life for a week?
You get paid **Bouv** , **CynicalGabe** just runs the local Quicky-Mart in a very bad part of town. 😃
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### Author:  [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2005, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-keep-running-out-of/337349/15 "2005-12-28T14:33:32Z")
Captain Morgan’s
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### Author:  [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2005, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-keep-running-out-of/337349/16 "2005-12-28T15:17:58Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#):
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> Our coat hangers have been awol for months and then suddenly reappear in a frightened clot in the front hall closet.
This gave me an irrational fit of the giggles. I’m still laughing just picturing a frightened clot of wire hangars. Now that’s comedy.
Everytime I open the medicine cabinet we’re out of mouthwash again. And even though I buy a couple six-packs of beer and a couple bottles of wine every Friday night, I have to do it all over again the next week. I guess we drink more than I realized.
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### Author:  [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2005, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-keep-running-out-of/337349/17 "2005-12-28T15:21:37Z")
Patience and time.
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### Author:  [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2005, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-keep-running-out-of/337349/18 "2005-12-28T20:22:25Z")
Milk, bread, that stuff. Lunchmeat - not that I run out of it, but that I forget I had it in the fridge and it’s old when I next notice it. Ditto prewashed salad. Pillsbury frozen cheese and garlic biscuits - they’re hard to find, and I keep running out of them. And I keep forgetting to make more sweet tea.
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### Author:  [@Winnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnie)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2005, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-keep-running-out-of/337349/19 "2005-12-28T20:59:43Z")
Plastic grocery bags. I’m a dog walker, and I’m always grabbing a huge wad of plastic bags to stash in my car but yet I’m always down to just one when it comes time to walk the beasties. What the eff are people FEEDING these dogs?
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-keep-running-out-of/337349/20 "2005-12-28T21:08:52Z")
Beer
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